The Guardian (UK) Tuesday, October 29, G2, p. 3 James Ramsden Kadir Nurman died this week in Berlin at the age of 80, leaving in his wake the kind of legacy many of us can only dream of. For Nurman was the inventor of that king of midnight feasts, the doner kebab. Or so they

In Iznik, a small town in western Anatolia, a deadly dispute involving three men prompted a mob to go on a rampage in the town’s Roma neighborhood. Experts are voicing concern that the incident is a sign of rising intolerance against the Roma community in Turkey

Not satisfied with the bulk data it collects through court orders from internet giants Google and Yahoo, the National Security Agency reportedly vacuumed up traffic from communication links between the companies’ data centers, according to documents leaked by Edward Snowden.

The National (UAE) Tuesday, October 29, 2013, p. 1 Thomas Seibert, Foreign Correspondent Bosphorus rail tunnel links Europe and Asia in Istanbul. More than a century ago, it was an Ottoman sultan’s distant dream. Now an underground rail link between Europe and Asia in Turkey’s metropolis of Istanbul – part of an “iron Silk Road”